Flint Hills Human Rights Project

08/04/2026

Our gender identity, past involvement with the criminal legal system, or need for personal safety can impact our experience voting, but there are rights that protect us.

“🗳️Voting Rights for Trans and Nonbinary Voters

In Kansas, your gender presentation does not need to match your legal or voter registration documents to vote. Poll workers cannot question your eligibility based on appearance, name, or gender marker.

If you are registered, you can vote – even if your ID photo looks different now.
→ You are not required to disclose your gender identity to poll workers.
→ You are entitled to vote free from discrimination or harassment.

If your identity is challenged, you have the right to request a provisional ballot and follow up with election officials.”

🗳️Voting Rights for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Individuals who lose their voting rights due to a felony conviction may re-register to vote upon completion of their sentence. The voter registration form includes an affidavit above the signature line attesting an individual’s right to vote has been restored. Signing a false affidavit is a felony and could result in the loss of voting rights, if convicted. Misdemeanor convictions do not affect your voting rights.

If you’re unsure, you can check your status or register again through ksvotes.org.

🗳️ Voting as a Survivor of Violence

If you are a survivor of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, trafficking, or stalking, Kansas offers the Safe at Home program to protect your address while allowing you to vote.

You can register using a confidential address through Safe at Home. You will receive a special ballot process that keeps your personal information secure. Contact the Kansas Secretary of State’s office or your local advocate to enroll.

Your safety should never be a barrier to your civic participation.”

From https://thevoternetwork.org/know-your-rights/

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07/29/2026

BREAKING🚨🏳️‍🌈 A federal judge just ordered Pete Hegseth to explain why testosterone is a health benefit for cisgender troops but somehow makes transgender soldiers unfit to serve.

On July 15, Hegseth posted a video titled "The High-T Department of War" announcing that troops 30 and older will get annual testosterone screening, and anyone found low can voluntarily receive testosterone replacement therapy. He called it restoring "your natural capabilities" and said, "We owe our warriors the absolute best medical care in the world."

The judge put that video next to the language of the transgender ban itself, which says troops must meet high standards "without the benefit of routine medical treatment or special provisions." She's now demanding the Pentagon explain its "basis for treating trans men and other service members differently between this new policy and the Military Ban."

Because it's the EXAC same hormone. Testosterone prescribed to a cisgender man with low levels and testosterone prescribed to a trans man both require regular prescriptions, lab testing, and medical supervision. The administration has spent months arguing that ongoing hormone care makes trans troops an expense and a readiness risk.

Judge Reyes already gutted the cost argument once. When she first blocked the ban, she noted the military spent roughly $41 million on Vi**ra in 2023 alone, and called trans health care "not even a rounding error." She's called the ban "soaked in animus and dripping with pretext."

She laid out six questions for both sides before an August 7 briefing, including the actual costs of screening and treating cis troops, and invited expert testimony. And this reaches far beyond a few plaintiffs.

In June she certified the case as a class action, meaning the outcome could bind every trans servicemember covered by the ban.

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07/10/2026

🌯 Get a Burrito. Support LGBTQ+ Folks in Our Community 🏳️‍🌈

Join us for a delicious way to give back!

Wednesday, July 15

4:00–8:00 PM

606 N. Manhattan Ave., Manhattan, KS

Every order helps support the Flint Hills Human Rights Project's work to build a stronger, more equitable community. Funds raised will go toward:

🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTQ+ scholarships for local students

💜 A new emergency fund to help LGBTQ2I+ community members facing urgent needs

Whether you're craving a burrito, bowl, tacos, chips and guac, or planning ahead for meal prep needs with a big order to build your own burrito bowls, your order can make a real difference.

Bring your friends, your family, your coworkers, fishing buddies, or make it a midweek dinner date—and help invest in our local LGBTQ+ community, one burrito at a time.

🌈 Together, we can make sure our q***r siblings have a little more of what they need.

07/07/2026

06/21/2026

Although June is coming to an end, the celebration of Pride continues year-round! Get your tank, tee, or sweatshirt today and make a meaningful contribution to our scholarship fund! https://www.fhhrp.org/tshirt-fundraising

06/14/2026

Summer Meals Free for ages 1-18
Breakfast 7:45-8:30am, lunch 11-12:30 offered at the following locations: Bluemont, Frank Bergman, Northview, Ogden, Theodore Roosevelt and Manhattan High School.
Monday June 15- Cheeseburger, Baked Beans, fresh veggies, fruit and milk
Tuesday June 16- Chicken Tenders, Potato Smiles, fresh veggies, fruit and milk
Wednesday June 17- Spaghetti, Breadstick, fresh veggies, fruit and milk
Thursday June 18- Oven Roasted Drumstick, Cornbread, Mashed Potatoes, fresh veggies, fruit and milk
Friday June 19- Brunch for lunch with sausage, Blueberry muffin square, string cheese, sweet potatoes, fruit and milk
Adult Prices $3.00 for breakfast and $5.75 for lunch.

06/02/2026

June 1 marks two significant moments in the struggle for justice, liberation, and human rights.

Today, we remember the victims and survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when a white mob—enabled by local authorities and the deputization of white civilians—destroyed the thriving Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street. We honor the lives stolen, the communities shattered, and the generations who carried forward the fight for racial justice.

Today also marks the beginning of 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ Pride month 🏳️‍⚧️, a celebration rooted not in corporate sponsorships or parades, but in resistance. Pride traces its origins to the Stonewall uprising, when q***r and transgender people fought back against police harassment, violence, and criminalization.

These histories are connected through struggles against state violence, systems of oppression, and through the lives of Black LGBTQ+ people who stood at their intersections.

Today, we mourn those who were taken from us. We celebrate those whose courage transformed our world. And we recommit ourselves to the unfinished work of racial justice, q***r liberation, and collective flourishing.

04/26/2026

College is hard enough without systems that make it harder to show up as your full self.

That’s why community matters—and why we invest in each other. 💜

The Flint Hills Human Rights Project is offering scholarships to students who are building, supporting, and uplifting q***r communities through their work, creativity, research, advocacy, and resilience.

If you’ve been doing the work—whether it’s visible or behind the scenes—we see you. This funding is for you.

🗓 Deadline: May 23, 2026
💻 Apply at: https://www.fhhrp.org/scholarship

04/25/2026

Kansas universities can’t offer LGBTQ+ scholarships right now—not because the need disappeared, but because state lawmakers changed the rules.

Last year, the Kansas state budget proviso eliminated funding for DEI programs and positions at public universities. In practice, that means schools are no longer allowed to offer identity-based scholarships—including those that specifically support LGBTQ+ students.

The impact is real.

At a time when many LGBTQ+ students are:
🏳️‍🌈Being pushed out of their homes for who they are
🏳️‍⚧️Navigating harassment or hate—and the trauma that follows
🎓Balancing school while managing trauma, isolation, financial instability, and hostile learning climates.

Public institutions have been stripped of tools they once used to support them.

But while universities can’t—we can.

💜 Apply for an LGBTQ+ scholarship ($500–$700) by May 23:
https://www.fhhrp.org/scholarship

💚 Help us fill the gap left by this policy:
Donate directly: https://www.fhhrp.org/memberships
Shop our fundraising shirts: https://www.fhhrp.org/tshirt-fundraising

This is what community care looks like. This isn’t accidental—this policy removes support from LGBTQ+ students and students of color at a moment they need it most.

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